Visiting Basque Prof Giving Talk on Typhoon Prediction, Historical Research this Valentines

For the love of knowledge, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. is celebrating the love month with two lecture-fora. The first one is about “Typhoon prediction and earthquake-resistant building in the Philippines, 1850-1898,” and will be held on February 13, Friday, 3 p.m. at the Halad Museum located on V. Gullas Street at the back of Gaisano Main.

At 9 a.m. the next day, February 14, a lecture on “Historical Research: Design and Data Gathering” will be held at the Saint Theresa’s College auditorium.

The speaker in both lecture-fora is Aitor Anduaga, an Ikerbasque research professor of the University of the Basque Country (Basque Museum of History of Medicine and Science). He holds a Ph.D. in physics and a bachelor in philosophy.

He has also been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford, Sydney, Montreal and Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science of Berlin and the Smithsonian Institution of Washington (National Museum of American History).

He has published extensively on the social history of physics and technology. Among his books, published by the Oxford University Press, Wireless & Empire. Is the “Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939.”

On Basque topics, his main contribution is the book “The Basque Chain. Education, Technology, Social Power and Industrial Performance, 1776-1902.”

For inquiries, please call May Sanchez at 4187234 loc. 703 or 2555630, or for Rene H. Martel at 418-7234 loc. 407/540.